Advice for compendium data in a custom system
Hello, i'm new here!
I was wondering if I could get a little direction for storing data about my games items/actors.
I looked at how it is done in pf2e and dnd5e. They both seem to have gone different directions.
DnD5e uses
while PF2E uses
Should I be using
and how should I prepare these files so Foundry can see the data in the packs?
One thing I tried to do was to:
- create an empty world
- set up a compendium pack by hand using my systems sheets
- used the foundry cli tool to 'unpack' my worlds pack data
- moved those json files into my systems /packs folder.
- updated my manifest so it would point to the correct /packs, and restarted my other test world to see if it could use the packs provided by my system. The pack folders are there, but non of the items are inside.
In the future, I would like to be able to curate the data into a
I was wondering if I could get a little direction for storing data about my games items/actors.
I looked at how it is done in pf2e and dnd5e. They both seem to have gone different directions.
DnD5e uses
.dbwhile PF2E uses
.jsonShould I be using
.db.jsonand how should I prepare these files so Foundry can see the data in the packs?
One thing I tried to do was to:
- create an empty world
- set up a compendium pack by hand using my systems sheets
- used the foundry cli tool to 'unpack' my worlds pack data
- moved those json files into my systems /packs folder.
- updated my manifest so it would point to the correct /packs, and restarted my other test world to see if it could use the packs provided by my system. The pack folders are there, but non of the items are inside.
In the future, I would like to be able to curate the data into a
.db.json
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